CVE-2024-27401: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: nosy: ensure user_length is taken into account when fetching packet contents Ensure that packet_buffer_get respects the user_length provided. If the length of the head packet exceeds the user_length, packet_buffer_get will now return 0 to signify to the user that no data were read and a larger buffer size is required. Helps prevent user space overflows.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only; version 40 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.36, before 4.19.314 (fixed in 4.19.314); from 4.20, before 5.4.276 (fixed in 5.4.276); from 5.5, before 5.10.217 (fixed in 5.10.217); from 5.11, before 5.15.159 (fixed in 5.15.159); from 5.16, before 6.1.91 (fixed in 6.1.91); from 6.2, before 6.6.31 (fixed in 6.6.31); …

Published 2024-05-14. Last modified 2026-08-04.